Google has awarded over $28,000 to bug hunters who have contributed to fixing security problems in Chrome 34.

According to Google's Chrome Releases blog, the Chrome 34 release — now promoted to the Stable channel — contains a number of fixes and improvements. In total, 34 security vulnerabilities have been patched, including approximately 19 highly rated, critical flaws.

In total, over $28,000 has been awarded to reporters of the security issues.

In the next release of Chrome, when Chrome 34 becomes part of the Stable Channel and is then rolled out as a default browser for millions of users, the software will include a new feature; it will "now offer to remember and fill password fields in the presence of autocomplete=off." In other words, even if a website turns off automatic password retention, Chrome will offer to do it anyway for password fields.